..Privately owned Symbios Logic with 2200 employees, had $600m revenue in 1996.
(Didn't know they were this big. Full release below - HH)
Symbios Logic Participates in the Microsoft Cluster Server Program with End-to-End Storage Solutions
Business Wire - November 17, 1997 05:58
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997--
Symbios Logic Provides Total Storage Solutions with SCSI Host
Adapter Boards and Storage Systems For Enterprise Business
Systems Using Microsoft Windows NT Clustering Environments
Well established as an industry leader in I/O and storage technology, as well as in the development and promotion of open industry standards, Symbios Logic Inc. today announced successful product interoperability testing with the Microsoft(R) Cluster Server (MSCS) program, formerly known as Wolfpack.
Through the MSCS program, Microsoft has invited leading industry vendors to develop products compatible with the initiative, to enable more complete clustering solutions for enterprise business systems. The benefit to the end user is the ease of system configuration with no associated concern about whether system components will interoperate, as they have all been MSCS tested. This shortens time-to-market and results in a more stable, robust, scalable and reliable system for enterprise computing.
With a full line of Ultra and Ultra2 SCSI controllers, host adapters and SCSI expander products that support clustering (such as MSCS), the Company has proven the compatibility of a variety of its PCI-SCSI host adapters, including the SYM8251SP, SYM8750SP, SYM8751SP, SYM8751D and SYM22801 in the MSCS beta program. NCR and IBM have also validated their clustering solutions with Symbios Logic storage system products (see Symbios Logic's August 25, 1997, press release); NCR with the Symbios Logic DS-10 OEM storage system and IBM with the Symbios Logic MetaStor(TM) DS-20E storage system.
"Symbios Logic has been working closely with Microsoft to guarantee that Windows NT(R) Server Enterprise Edition clustering products, our SCSI host adapters and RAID storage systems, are completely interoperable with MSCS software," said Tom Lagatta, Symbios Logic's vice president of corporate marketing and business development. "Symbios Logic is uniquely positioned, with our broad, system-level clustering experience, to drive our mid-range and enterprise-level clustering knowledge into the open system and Windows NT server market. We have proven ourselves in the establishment and promotion of industry I/O technologies including SCSI, RAID, Fibre Channel, I2O and 1394, and we are fully committed to supporting the clustering solution laid out by MSCS."
Symbios Logic has been actively involved from the beginning with Microsoft's Cluster Server testing and certification program. As an industry leader in standard technologies and products that are key to the server and workstation markets, Symbios Logic has been working directly with Microsoft Corporation, and other industry leaders, to certify a variety of its I/O and storage products in certified cluster configurations. Customers will benefit from the Company's participation in the MSCS compatibility testing and certification program with enhancements to be realized in availability, scalability and reliability, through dual server clustering.
Symbios Logic was selected to participate in the Microsoft program because of its leadership in SCSI and RAID technology, because it has extensive experience with mid-range and enterprise-level clustering and holds a solid reputation in the server arena, and especially because it offers a total clustering solution. Symbios Logic's industry-leading hardware product offerings, combined with the software to support them, have been integrated and proven to work together, providing a complete, cohesive clustering solution for the Windows NT Server environment.
The MSCS program, based on industry-standard hardware, initially specified two-node clustering of NT systems. By participating in the MSCS compatibility testing and certification program, Symbios Logic is able to offer a complete storage clustering solution that seamlessly integrates into the Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition. Microsoft's clustering technology is an effort to provide a computing platform for today's, as well as tomorrow's, enterprise computing needs -- systems with enhanced scalability, improved reliability and high availability. As an independent hardware vendor taking part in the program, Symbios Logic can successfully meet these emerging Windows NT server environment requirements.
Symbios Logic, Inc., headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, creates solutions for moving and storing information. The Company focuses on developing partnerships with its customers, including original equipment manufacturers and resellers in the storage, server, peripherals and communications markets. A privately owned company of 2,200 employees, Symbios Logic had revenue of approximately $600 million in 1996. For further information, please call 1-800/856-3093 or visit our web site at www.symbios.com . Our e-mail address for product information is literature@symbios.com . |
